Definitions for lazaretto

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lazaretto laz·a·ret·to

Spelling: [laz-uh-ret-oh]

IPA: /ˌlæz əˈrɛt oʊ/

Lazaretto is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in lazaretto (aaelorttz).

Definitions for lazaretto

noun

1. a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
2. a building or a ship set apart for quarantine purposes.
3. Also called glory hole. Nautical. a small storeroom within the hull of a ship, especially one at the extreme stern.

Origin of lazaretto

1540-50; Upper Italian (Venetian) lazareto, blend of lazzaro lazar and Nazareto popular name of a hospital maintained in Venice by the Church of Santa Maria di Nazar

Examples for lazaretto

I pulled up the harbor, and landed the other side of the lazaretto.

Earlier this week I got an advance copy of his new LP, lazaretto; it hasn't left my earbuds since.

I'm a poor Englishman who has made his escape from the lazaretto.

The lazaretto is the most perfect of any arrangement of the kind in Europe.

At Venice he is conducted to the lazaretto, to undergo the quarantine.

In 1878 there were 16 patients in the lazaretto—6 men and 10 women.

Farther on is Meljina, with a lazaretto of the seventeenth century.

When I visited the lazaretto, Damien was already in his resting grave.

The regulations to be observed in the lazaretto are given on the following page.

No convalescent inmate had yet appeared upon the terrace of the lazaretto.